Brian Eno/David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

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It is hard to believe that this collaboration between the Talking Heads linchpin and his future producer is 25 years old. Sampling has made recontextualising commonplace — as is the blending of ethnic beats — but this album still sounds fresh and startling.

The premise is simple: “found” voices — Lebanese mountain singers, American Pentecostal preachers and even an exorcist on the rousing Jezebel Spirit — meet polyrhythmic contours, from African and ambient to funk, gamelan and beyond.

Bush of Ghosts is one of the most influential records of the modern age — anyone in the know should own this